ABOVE: Alec Mapa has faced these heinous rumors with such class and dignity.

BELOW: Keep reading for one of the most revealing covers on any issue of Esquire, Tennessee's anti-drag law on pause and more ...

 

Happy to be left in the dark on this occasion. (Image via Spanish Esquire)

OMG.BLOG!: Miguel Álexandre Silvestre goes fully nude for Spanish Esquire, with his penis barely, artfully concealed. Great pics inside, too, including an ass you can ski offa.

SOCIALITE LIFE: Marco Folino's selfies are visual crack.

CBS NEWS: The NYPD has named three people who are allegedly connected to the druggings/robberies/slayings in those NYC cases. Two gay men are dead, many other victims were violated, and now cops say that in addition to five unnamed people who've been indicted and another, Shane Hoskins, who was previously named, Jayqwan Hamilton, 35, Robert Demaio, 34, and Jacob Barroso, 30, are being sought.

HUFF POST: Because of course the right wing is gleefully using the trans ID of the latest school shooter to bludgeon the entire trans community. Reminds me of how when I was young in Michigan, anytime someone mentioned a story involving a criminal, someone else would quickly ask, “Were they Black?!”

PEOPLE: Lukas Gage calls Chris Appleton his “perfect person.”

ADVOCATE: A Trump-appointed judge has temporarily halted Tennessee's odious anti-drag law.